Federal Register Summary for week of 23 July

Agriculture

Solicitation of Letters of Interest to Participate in Biotechnology Quality Management System Program

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) is soliciting letters of interest to
participate in the APHIS Biotechnology Quality Management System
Program. The Biotechnology Quality Management System Program is a
voluntary compliance assistance program designed to help regulated entities
develop and implement sound management practices, thus enhancing
compliance with the regulatory requirements for field trials and
movement of genetically engineered organisms in 7 CFR part 340.

In the Federal Register of July 15, 2010, in FR Doc. 2010-17285, on
page 41167, please make the following correction:

Under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, first column, the second to the
last paragraph is corrected to read:

"Nominations are open to all individuals without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical
handicap, marital status, or sexual orientation. Please note, however,
that registered lobbyists and individuals already serving on another
Federal Advisory Committee are ineligible for nomination.''

The deadline for Technical Advisory Committee member nominations is
July 30, 2010.

Executive Office of the President

Executive Order 13547--Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes

Executive Order 13547 of July 19, 2010

Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the
Great Lakes

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. The ocean, our coasts, and the
Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources,
ecological services, recreation, and tourism
opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation's
transportation, economy, and trade, as well as the
global mobility of our Armed Forces and the maintenance
of international peace and security. The Deepwater
Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and resulting
environmental crisis is a stark reminder of how
vulnerable our marine environments are, and how much
communities and the Nation rely on healthy and
resilient ocean and coastal ecosystems. America's
stewardship of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great
Lakes is intrinsically linked to environmental
sustainability, human health and well-being, national
prosperity, adaptation to climate and other
environmental changes, social justice, international
diplomacy, and national and homeland security.

This order adopts the recommendations of the
Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, except where
otherwise provided in this order, and directs executive
agencies to implement those recommendations under the
guidance of a National Ocean Council. Based on those
recommendations, this order establishes a national
policy to ensure the protection, maintenance, and
restoration of the health of ocean, coastal, and Great
Lakes ecosystems and resources, enhance the
sustainability of ocean and coastal economies, preserve
our maritime heritage, support sustainable uses and
access, provide for adaptive management to enhance our
understanding of and capacity to respond to climate
change and ocean acidification, and coordinate with our
national security and foreign policy interests.

This order also provides for the development of coastal
and marine spatial plans that build upon and improve
existing Federal, State, tribal, local, and regional
decisionmaking and planning processes. These regional
plans will enable a more integrated, comprehensive,
ecosystem-based, flexible, and proactive approach to
planning and managing sustainable multiple uses across
sectors and improve the conservation of the ocean, our
coasts, and the Great Lakes.

Sec. 2. Policy. (a) To achieve an America whose
stewardship ensures that the ocean, our coasts, and the
Great Lakes are healthy and resilient, safe and
productive, and understood and treasured so as to
promote the well-being, prosperity, and security of
present and future generations, it is the policy of the
United States to:

(i) protect, maintain, and restore the health and biological diversity of
ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources;

(ii) improve the resiliency of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems,
communities, and economies;

(iii) bolster the conservation and sustainable uses of land in ways that
will improve the health of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems;

(iv) use the best available science and knowledge to inform decisions
affecting the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes, and enhance
humanity's capacity to understand, respond, and adapt to a changing global
environment;

(v) support sustainable, safe, secure, and productive access to, and uses
of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes;

(vii) exercise rights and jurisdiction and perform duties in accordance
with applicable international law, including respect for and preservation
of navigational rights and freedoms, which are essential for the global
economy and international peace and security;

(viii) increase scientific understanding of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes
ecosystems as part of the global interconnected systems of air, land, ice,
and water, including their relationships to humans and their activities;

(ix) improve our understanding and awareness of changing environmental
conditions, trends, and their causes, and of human activities taking place
in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes waters; and

(x) foster a public understanding of the value of the ocean, our coasts,
and the Great Lakes to build a foundation for improved stewardship.

(b) The United States shall promote this policy by:

(i) ensuring a comprehensive and collaborative framework for the
stewardship of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes that facilitates
cohesive actions across the Federal Government, as well as participation of
State, tribal, and local authorities, regional governance structures,
nongovernmental organizations, the public, and the private sector;

(ii) cooperating and exercising leadership at the international level;

(iii) pursuing the United States' accession to the Law of the Sea
Convention; and

(iv) supporting ocean stewardship in a fiscally responsible manner.

Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this order:

(a) "Final Recommendations'' means the Final
Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task
Force that shall be made publicly available and for
which a notice of public availability shall be
published in the Federal Register.

(b) The term "coastal and marine spatial
planning'' means a comprehensive, adaptive, integrated,
ecosystem-based, and transparent spatial planning
process, based on sound science, for analyzing current
and anticipated uses of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes
areas. Coastal and marine spatial planning identifies
areas most suitable for various types or classes of
activities in order to reduce conflicts among uses,
reduce environmental impacts, facilitate compatible
uses, and preserve critical ecosystem services to meet
economic, environmental, security, and social
objectives. In practical terms, coastal and marine
spatial planning provides a public policy process for
society to better determine how the ocean, our coasts,
and Great Lakes are sustainably used and protected--now
and for future generations.

(c) The term "coastal and marine spatial plans''
means the plans that are certified by the National
Ocean Council as developed in accordance with the
definition, goals, principles, and process described in
the Final Recommendations.

Sec. 4. Establishment of National Ocean Council. (a)
There is hereby established the National Ocean Council
(Council).

(b) The Council shall consist of the following:

(i) the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and the Director of
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, who shall be the Co-Chairs of
the Council;

(ii) the Secretaries of State, Defense, the Interior, Agriculture, Health
and Human Services, Commerce, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Homeland
Security, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (Administrator of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the Administrator of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Director of National
Intelligence, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;

(iii) the National Security Advisor and the Assistants to the President for
Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Domestic Policy, Energy and Climate
Change, and Economic Policy;

(iv) an employee of the Federal Government designated by the Vice
President; and

(v) such other officers or employees of the Federal Government as the Co-
Chairs of the Council may from time to time designate.

(c) The Co-Chairs shall invite the participation of
the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, to the extent consistent with the
Commission's statutory authorities and legal
obligations, and may invite the participation of such
other independent agencies as the Council deems
appropriate.

(d) The Co-Chairs of the Council, in consultation
with the National Security Advisor and the Assistant to
the President for Homeland Security and
Counterterrorism, shall regularly convene and preside
at meetings of the Council, determine its agenda,
direct its work, and, as appropriate to address
particular subject matters, establish and direct
committees of the Council that shall consist
exclusively of members of the Council.

(e) A member of the Council may designate, to
perform committee functions of the member, any person
who is within such member's department, agency, or
office and who is (i) an officer of the United States
appointed by the President, (ii) a member of the Senior
Executive Service or the Senior Intelligence Service,
(iii) a general officer or flag officer, or (iv) an
employee of the Vice President.

(f) Consistent with applicable law and subject to
the availability of appropriations, the Office of
Science and Technology Policy and the Council on
Environmental Quality shall provide the Council with
funding, including through the National Science and
Technology Council or the Office of Environmental
Quality. The Council on Environmental Quality shall, to
the extent permitted by law and subject to the
availability of appropriations, provide administrative
support necessary to implement this order.

(g) The day-to-day operations of the Council shall
be administered by a Director and a Deputy Director,
who shall supervise a full-time staff to assist the Co-
Chairs in their implementation of this order.

Sec. 5. Functions of the Council. (a) The Council shall
have the structure and function and operate as defined
in the Final Recommendations. The Council is
authorized, after the Council's first year of
operation, to make modifications to its structure,
function, and operations to improve its effectiveness
and efficiency in furthering the policy set forth in
section 2 of this order.

(b) To implement the policy set forth in section 2
of this order, the Council shall provide appropriate
direction to ensure that executive departments',
agencies', or offices' decisions and actions affecting
the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes will be
guided by the stewardship principles and national
priority objectives set forth in the Final
Recommendations, to the extent consistent with
applicable law. The Council shall base its decisions on
the consensus of its members. With respect to those
matters in which consensus cannot be reached, the
National Security Advisor shall coordinate with the Co-
Chairs and, as appropriate, the Assistants to the
President for Energy and Climate Change, and Economic
Policy, and the employee of the United States
designated by the Vice President, subject to the
limitations set forth in section 9 of this order, to
present the disputed issue or issues for decision by
the President.

Sec. 6. Agency Responsibilities. (a) All executive
departments, agencies, and offices that are members of
the Council and any other executive department, agency,
or office whose actions affect the ocean, our coasts,
and the Great Lakes shall, to the fullest extent
consistent with applicable law:

(i) take such action as necessary to implement the policy set forth in
section 2 of this order and the stewardship principles and national
priority objectives as set forth in the Final Recommendations and
subsequent guidance from the Council; and

(ii) participate in the process for coastal and marine spatial planning and
comply with Council certified coastal and marine spatial plans, as
described in the Final Recommendations and subsequent guidance from the
Council.

(b) Each executive department, agency, and office
that is required to take actions under this order shall
prepare and make publicly available an annual report
including a concise description of actions taken by the
agency in the previous calendar year to implement the
order, a description of written comments by persons or
organizations regarding the agency's compliance with
this order, and the agency's response to such comments.

(c) Each executive department, agency, and office
that is required to take actions under this order shall
coordinate and contribute resources, as appropriate, to
assist in establishing a common information management
system as defined in the Final Recommendations and
shall be held accountable for managing its own
information assets by keeping them current, easily
accessible, and consistent with Federal standards.

(d) To the extent permitted by law, executive
departments, agencies, and offices shall provide the
Council such information, support, and assistance as
the Council, through the Co-Chairs, may request.

Sec. 7. Governance Coordinating Committee. The Council
shall establish a Governance Coordinating Committee
that shall consist of 18 officials from State, tribal,
and local governments in accordance with the Final
Recommendations. The Committee may establish
subcommittees chaired by representatives of the
Governance Coordinating Committee. These subcommittees
may include additional representatives from State,
tribal, and local governments, as appropriate to
provide for greater collaboration and diversity of
views.

Sec. 8. Regional Advisory Committees. The lead Federal
department, agency, or office for each regional
planning body established for the development of
regional coastal and marine spatial plans, in
consultation with their nonfederal co-lead agencies and
membership of their regional planning body, shall
establish such advisory committees under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., as they deem
necessary to provide information and to advise the
regional planning body on the development of regional
coastal and marine spatial plans to promote the policy
established in section 2 of this order.

Sec. 9. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order,
the establishment of the Council, and the Final
Recommendations shall be construed to impair or
otherwise affect:

(i) authority granted by law to an executive department or agency or the
head thereof; or

(ii) functions assigned by the President to the National Security Council
or Homeland Security Council (including subordinate bodies) relating to
matters affecting foreign affairs, national security, homeland security, or
intelligence.

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to
impair or otherwise affect the functions of the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative
proposals.

(c) In carrying out the provisions of this order
and implementing the Final Recommendations, all actions
of the Council and the executive departments, agencies,
and offices that constitute it shall be consistent with
applicable international law, including customary
international law, such as that reflected in the Law of
the Sea Convention.

(d) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

Sec. 10. Revocation. Executive Order 13366 of December
17, 2004, is hereby revoked.

SUMMARY: Under the NIH Guidelines, experiments involving the generation
of transgenic rodents by recombinant DNA technology must be registered
with the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC). Specifically, Section
III-E-3 of the NIH Guidelines addresses the generation of transgenic
rodents that may be housed under biosafety level (BL) 1 conditions and
allows the work to proceed simultaneously with registration of the
experiment with the IBC. The IBC must then review and approve the
experiment. The NIH Guidelines address two pathways for "generation of
a transgenic rodent'': altering the animal's genome using recombinant
DNA technology or breeding one or more transgenic rodents to create a
new transgenic rodent (i.e., breeding of two different transgenic
rodents or the breeding of a transgenic rodent and a non-transgenic
rodent).

The NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities (OBA) received a request
that the breeding of well-characterized transgenic rodents that can be
maintained under BL1 conditions be exempt from the NIH Guidelines. The
rationale is that these experiments pose little if any biosafety risk
and therefore the requirement for registration with the IBC may impose
an administrative burden without enhancing the safe conduct of this
research. In response to this request, OBA brought a proposal to amend
the NIH Guidelines to the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) for
consideration. The initial proposal was discussed at the March 11, 2010
RAC meeting and a revised proposal was discussed at the June 16, 2010
RAC meeting (Webcasts of these discussions are available at http://oba.od.nih.gov/rdnarac/racmeetings.html). The RAC endorsed a
proposal that would exempt from the NIH Guidelines the breeding of
almost all transgenic rodents that can be housed at BL1, with the
exception of rodents that contain a gene encoding more than fifty
percent of an exogenous eukaryotic virus and transgenic rodents in
which the transgene is under the control of a gammaretroviral promoter.
This notice seeks public comment on this proposal.

DATES: The public is encouraged to submit written comments on these
proposed changes. Comments may be submitted to the OBA in paper or
electronic form at the OBA mailing, fax, and e-mail addresses shown
below under the heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. All comments
received by September 1, 2010 will be considered. All written comments
received in response to this notice will be available for public
inspection in the NIH OBA office, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, MSC
7985, Bethesda, MD 20892-7985, (Phone: 301-496-9838) weekdays between
the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions, or require
additional information about these proposed changes, please contact OBA
by e-mail at oba@od.nih.gov, or telephone at 301-496-9838. Comments can
be submitted to the same email address or by fax to 301-496-9839 or
mail to the Office of Biotechnology Activities, National Institutes of
Health, 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, MSC 7985, Bethesda, Maryland
20892-7985.

Background: Section III-E of the NIH Guidelines addresses
experiments for which IBC notification is required at the time the
research is initiated. Experiments covered in this section of the NIH
Guidelines are considered to be of low biosafety risk and therefore
although IBC review and approval is still required, such approval need
not be obtained prior to initiating research. This is in contrast to
all other covered experiments described in the NIH Guidelines for which
IBC review and approval is required prior to initiation of the
experiment.

Under the NIH Guidelines, certain experiments can be exempted from
the NIH Guidelines if they do not present a significant risk to public
health or the environment (Section III-F-6). These exemptions are
delineated in Appendix C of the NIH Guidelines. OBA was recently
approached regarding the Section III-E-3 requirement to register the
breeding of transgenic rodents and whether such experiments met the
criteria for exemption under Section III-F-6. OBA sought the advice of
the RAC on this issue.

Currently, the purchase or transfer of transgenic rodents that
require BL1 containment are exempt from the NIH Guidelines. This
proposal would extend that exemption to almost all experiments that
involve the generation of transgenic rodents by breeding, as long as
the transgenic rodents are appropriate to be maintained under BL1
conditions. The rationale is that three decades of experience working
with and breeding transgenic rodents has demonstrated that the
overwhelming majority of experiments involving breeding of transgenic
rodents that can be housed under BL1 conditions result in a rodent that
can be appropriately housed under BL1 conditions. These breeding
experiments do not pose an appreciable risk to human health or to the
environment. In addition, while the registration with the IBC is not a
significant burden, the total number of registrations required
constitutes a significant collective administrative burden on the IBC
and researchers that does not appear to be commensurate with the very
low biosafety risk.

There are still some breeding experiments for which IBC
registration would be required in order to ensure that a risk
assessment is conducted and that the resulting rodent is disposed of
appropriately. The proposed exemption would retain the requirement to
register with the IBC when the genome of one of the parental transgenic
rodents contains more than 50 percent of the genome of an exogenous,
eukaryotic virus from a single family or if the transgenic rodent's
transgene is under the control of a gammaretroviral long terminal
repeat (LTR). The restriction regarding exogenous eukaryotic viruses is
designed to prevent inadvertent reconstitution of an exogenous virus in
the resultant transgenic mouse. The restriction regarding transgenes
under control of a gammaretroviral long terminal repeat addresses the
small risk of recombination with endogenous retroviruses which could
potentially result in mobilization of the transgene via a replication-
competent mouse retrovirus. As the risk of recombination and possible
transmission to humans is more likely with gammaretroviral LTRs (e.g.,
MLV, XMRV, FeLV), the requirement for registration is limited to
rodents containing a transgene under control of these LTRs.

Specifically, the following changes are proposed to Appendix C of
the NIH Guidelines:

Appendix C-VII. Generation of BL1 Transgenic Rodents via Breeding

The breeding of two different transgenic rodents or the breeding of
a transgenic rodent with a non-transgenic rodent with the intent of
creating a new strain of transgenic rodent that can be housed at BL1
containment will be exempt from the NIH Guidelines if:

Both parental rodents can be housed under BL1 containment, and
neither parental transgenic rodent contains the following genetic
modifications:

(a) More than one-half of the genome of an exogenous virus from a
single Family of viruses; or

(b) A transgene that is under the control of a gammaretroviral long
terminal repeat (LTR); and

It is anticipated that the transgenic rodent that results from this
breeding:

(a) Will contain no more than one-half of an exogenous viral genome
from a single Family of viruses.

The current Appendix C-VII and Appendices C-VII-A through C-VII-E
would be renumbered to Appendix C-VIII and Appendices C-VIII-A though
C-VIII-E, respectively.

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002; Biennial Review and Republication of the Select Agent and Toxin List

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and
Response Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 262a) (the Bioterrorism Act) requires
the biennial review and republication of the HHS list of select agents
and toxins. Accordingly, we are soliciting public comment on the
current HHS list of select agents and toxins, including whether any
biological agent or toxin should be added to or removed from the list.
We are also seeking comments as to whether we should "tier'' the HHS
select agent list based on the relative bioterrorism risk of each agent
or toxin and possibly further "stratify'' the security requirements
for agents in the highest tier based on type of use or other factors.

DATES: We will consider all comments received on or before August 20,
2010.

ADDRESSES: Comments in response to this notice should be marked
"Comments on the changes to the list of select agents and toxins'' and
mailed to: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of
Select Agents and Toxins, 1600 Clifton Road, MS A-46, Atlanta, GA
30333. Comments may be e-mailed to: SAPcomments@cdc.gov.

Request for Information on Development of an Inventory of Comparative Effectiveness Research

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

ACTION: Request for Information.

SUMMARY: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning Evaluation
(ASPE) is developing a national inventory of comparative effectiveness
research (CER) and CER-related information. This initiative is driven
by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) which
provided $1.1 billion for research and development in the area of CER.
ARRA allocated $400 million to the Office of the Secretary (OS) in the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), $400 million to the
National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $300 million to the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality. ARRA also established the Federal
Coordinating Council for CER, which, after significant public input,
developed a strategic framework and recommended high-level priorities
for OS funds. While the FCC's Report to Congress drew on an initial CER
inventory focused on federal investments, the process of cataloguing
CER activities and infrastructure will be critical to tracking ongoing
and future investments in CER. An important component of this effort is
creating an inventory of CER to ensure that patients, clinicians, and
other decision makers can identify and locate relevant CER in a timely
manner.

ASPE seeks input on approaches to developing a CER Inventory that
capture ongoing and existing CER in the United States. This inventory
will be accessible to the public, including patients, clinicians, and
policymakers, through a web-based system. Comments should focus on
appropriate resources and approaches for developing the CER Inventory,
rather than the methodology of CER or suggestions for particular CER
studies that should be included in the CER Inventory. Requested
information includes suggestions regarding sources of CER and ways to
encourage participation in the inventory; comments related to
categorizing content; and approaches to ensure the CER Inventory is
useful and sustainable over time.

DATES: Submit comments by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on August 9, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Written or electronic comments should be submitted to HHS as
directed below.

Comments should be identified by referring to the "CER
Inventory'', and may be submitted to the Department of HHS by one of
the following methods:

Hand or courier delivery: Comments may be delivered to
Room 447-D, Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: CER
Inventory, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 447-D, 200 Independence
Avenue, SW., and Washington, DC 20201. Because access to the interior
of the HHH Building is not readily available to persons without Federal
Government identification, commenters are encouraged to leave their
comments in the CER Inventory drop box located in the main lobby of the
building. A stamp-in clock is available for persons wishing to retain
proof of filing by stamping in and retaining an extra copy of the
comments being filed.

Written submissions should be brief (no more than three pages per
submission), and should be in the form of a letter. Please do not
submit duplicate comments. Please do not include any personally
identifiable information (such as name, address, or other contact
information) or confidential business information that you do not want
publicly disclosed. Consequently, comments should not include any
sensitive health information from medical records or other individually
identifiable health information, or any non-public, corporate or trade
association information, such as trade secrets or other proprietary
information. Comments may be submitted anonymously.

Inspection of Public Comments: All comments received before the
close of the comment period are available for viewing by the public,
including any personally identifiable or confidential business
information that is included in a comment. All comments will be made
available publicly on the internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the search instructions on that Web site to view public
comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pierre Yong, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human
Services, (202) 690-8384, Pierre.Yong@hhs.gov.

Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity in Research for Which Public Health Service Funding Is Sought and Responsible Prospective Contractors

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or the
Department), including the HHS Public Health Service (PHS), is
extending the comment period for a proposed rule that would amend the
regulations on the Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting
Objectivity in Research for which PHS Funding is Sought and Responsible
Prospective Contractors, and is clarifying certain elements of the
proposed rule for which we are seeking additional comment. The proposed
rule was published in the Federal Register on May 21, 2010 (75 FR
28688). The comment period is extended by 30 days and thus will end on
August 19, 2010.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 19, 2010 in order
to ensure we will be able to consider the comments when preparing the
final rule.

ADDRESSES: Individuals, organizations and institutions interested in
submitting comments identified by RIN 0925-AA53 and Docket Number [NIH-
2010-0001] may do so by any of the following methods:

Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and Regulatory Information Number (RIN) [0925-AA53] and docket number
[NIH-2010-0001] for this rulemaking action. All comments may be posted
without change, including any personal information provided.

Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received concerning this rulemaking action, go to the
eRulemaking.gov Portal: http://www.regulations.gov and follow the
instructions provided for conducting a search, using the docket number
[NIH-2010-0001].

Interior

60-Day Notice of Intention To Request Clearance of Collection of Information; Opportunity for Public Comment

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
and 5 CFR Part 1320, Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements, the
National Park Service (NPS) invites public comments on an extension of
a currently approved information collection Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) 1024-0236.

DATES: Public comments on this Information Collection Request (ICR)
will be accepted on or before September 20, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Dr. John G. Dennis, Natural Resources
(Room 1160), NPS, 1201 Eye Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005; Phone:
202-513-7174; fax: 202-371-2131; e-mail WASONRSSresearchcoll@nps.gov. All responses to this notice will be summarized
and included in the request for the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. All comments will become a matter of public record.